JANET MERCEL
Janet is the executive editor of Avenue magazine and senior editor at the award-winning platform A Hotel Life. She was formerly editor in chief at DVEight and senior editor of its sister publication, Upstate Woman. Her writing appears in Architectural Digest, Business of Home, Art Basel Miami Beach, Condé Nast Traveler, YOLO Journal and Harper's Bazaar.
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Born and raised in the Hudson Valley, Janet began a career in interiors at Holland & Sherry, (The finest cloths in the world), while training in French embroidery on a pig farm outside Nuremberg under the same artisans who create passementerie for Louis Vuitton and Chanel.​ She was an integral member of the founding creative team behind H&S Bespoke at the Elizabeth Street Garden, and has worked for esteemed designers in New York and Los Angeles, including Pembrooke & Ives, Timothy Brown Studio, Stewart Manger Design and Peter Dunham. Her contributions to publishing houses Rizzoli and Bauer and Dean Publishers have spanned books on interior design, architecture, art, food, and fashion. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Bennington College.
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After a pioneering heart procedure that contributed to FDA approval of an experimental medical device, Janet was featured on CBS New York, NBC, and ABC, became the face of the Pace of Mind initiative for Mended Hearts, the world’s largest cardiovascular support organization, and served as keynote speaker at Medtronic’s Research Summit.
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